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...many times could I say no?" ALLEN LEE, former Hong Kong radio host, describing pressure from pro-Beijing friends to change the tone of his controversial show, from which he resigned...
None of the German tank companies were communicating with the others. We'd been told to keep radio silence so the Allies couldn't pick us up. We were like an orchestra without a conductor, and there I was playing flute. I continued all the way up to the coast, and when I got there, I saw an armada like a plague of locusts. The number of ships was uncountable, and the Allies' superior firepower was obvious. But in war, what you lose first is reason. I wanted to attack. I wanted to vanquish them...
Hong Kong's famously blunt radio call-in shows got less lively last week, when commentator Allen Lee hung up his headphones, saying he was getting too much pressure from friends for him to stay on the air. Lee was the third commentator in 16 days to quit, following a relentless campaign by Beijing to let Hong Kongers know that calls for more democracy in the territory aren't wise and won't be heeded. Lee also resigned his position in the National People's Congress, China's legislature, the first Hong Kong delegate to do so. The political climate...
...Sports Radio did not ignore this incident; instead, it replayed the taunts on air and declared them “not racist,” then encouraged listeners to call in with their best anti-Chinese jokes. Meanwhile, the Miami Heat decided to celebrate Yao’s first game in Miami on December 16, 2002, by passing out 8,000 fortune cookies to the crowd...
...assignments. He came home in February to West Chester, Pa., with some promising leads as well as rich tales of his adventures in the war-scarred land. "He had a comfort level in Iraq that is beyond our comprehension," says colleague Dave Skalish, a technical supervisor at a Philadelphia radio station...